Ex-convict gets 90 years in prison for posing as Fort Worth officer to coerce woman to have sex

An ex-convict with a long criminal history was sentenced to 90 years in prison Friday for posing as a police officer to coerce a woman to have sex with him.

Raul Alvarez-Mijan, 62, was convicted of impersonating a public servant Wednesday, and jurors returned the 90-year prison term Friday in state District Judge Everett Young’s Fort Worth courtroom.

This was the third major conviction for Alvarez-Mijan, who did time for aggravated assault in 1989 and Dallas County murder in 1983.

In the latest case, prosecutors say, Alvarez-Mijan offered a ride to a woman walking on East Lancaster Avenue in Fort Worth in June 2010. He told her he was a vice officer, flashed his badge and threatened to take her to jail if she didn’t have sex with him, authorities said. The woman kept walking and later called 911.

Within minutes of her call, officers found and arrested Alvarez-Mijan, who was carrying a handheld radio and a fake gun and badge.

Fort Worth investigators also linked Alvarez-Mijan to a similar case in which a woman was sexually assaulted. In that February 2010 case, the victim was walking to a store on East Lancaster when a man offered her a ride and told her he was a police officer. She said he sexually assaulted her twice, displaying his badge and gun between the assaults.

Alvarez-Mijan still faces a charge of aggravated sexual assault in that case.

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